Local Arts

The Rakish Angles, a well known and exciting local group of excellent musicians playing instrumental old time/Latin/Gypsy/ bluegrass, have just been nominated for the Western Canadian Music Award Instrumental Album of the Year.

Editor's note: The Coast String Fiddlers (CSF) are in Aberdeen, Scotland for the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Parent chaperone Kathy Wood and some of the participants have been updating Coast Reporter readers of their trip.

Not long ago, singer and songwriter Janet Panic and a few other musical women put on a show at the Sechelt Legion.

It's called the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival (GLFAF) even though the workshops and juried exhibition of the popular August event take place uphill from the Landing, at Elphinstone Secondary School. But on Saturday, Aug.

On Saturday, from 7 to 9 p.m. Music in the Landing presents a special event, Brilliant Harmony, at St. Bart's Church. This is an outstanding women's choir based in Tokyo and formed in 1988 by leading Japanese choral musician Ko Matsushita.

With the recent release of Grant McKenzie's book, Switch, the Sunshine Coast can claim another stellar author in its midst. A rip-snorting, page-turning, suspense novel, McKenzie's first book is not for the faint of heart.

The Gibsons Public Art Gallery and the Sunshine Coast Grandmothers & GrandOthers are jointly sponsoring a unique textile arts show called Turning the TideOne Ripple at a Time Aug. 18 to 21.

Editor's note: The Coast String Fiddlers are in Aberdeen, Scotland for the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Parent chaperone Kathy Wood and some of the participants will be updating Coast Reporter readers in the next few weeks of their trip.

The image lingers. Pender Harbour film maker and photographer Dianne Whelan, while camping on Mount Everest last May, remembers the hand - still covered with hair and skin - emerging through the ice of the receding glacier.

Culture was celebrated on the Coast last weekend with a hugely successful Sechelt Arts Festival.